This is not the time to forget or ignore the legacy of the American Revolution. Today, more than ever, it is the time to remember that our forefathers fought and died in a revolution for freedom helping to create and build an America based on The Constitution of the United States. Originally, the Constitution was comprised seven articles delineating the national frame and constraints of government. After 1787, The Constitution became America’s legacy, a legacy which speaks of virtue and morality — a legacy that has been the basis of our government for nearly two hundred and fifty years. And yet, today that legacy is in jeopardy.
What sort of legacy will be left by today’s administration to the people they leave behind–our children, and our grandchildren? How many of America’s present leaders actually realize their purpose is to be an example of virtue to America’s citizens? How many of them ever even speak about VIRTUE? And yet, virtue is essential to what it means to be a real leader and a truly human person. Anyone seeking a role in leadership must have the moral purpose of making our country and her people better, not worse.
Any legacy is built over time, not overnight. It is often thought to be money or property willed to a descendent. But the legacy any of us leave to our descendants will be much more than material; it will be spiritual as well. We will pass to those left behind a legacy built on genuine truth, or a legacy of falsity whereby we have attempted to destroy genuine truth most often out of personal greed.
Our country’s spiritual legacy–its moral virtue–affects many, many, people, not only those related to us. For those who lead our country, this should be of special concern. Why isn’t it?
The moral virtues are attitudes, dispositions, and good habits that govern one’s actions, passions, and conduct according to reason; and are acquired by human effort, which for our leaders means the effort of putting the nation above one’s own selfish purposes. Why don’t they?
The cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. How are our political leaders–from the top down — showing us those virtues? Where is the prudence, the fortitude, and for heaven sake, where is the temperance?
In 2016, we elected a president who, like each of us, was not a perfect person–but was, and still is, a real leader. He began building a legacy for America built on truth and common sense. And he succeeded where others have failed miserably. But the legacy President Trump built flies in the face of many on the left who have their own selfish, even immoral, agendas, and so they seek to bring him down by division, distraction, and falsifying the facts with astounding hypocrisy–even imprudently employing our Department of Justice to do it. Do we want this type of leadership?
Is this the sort of legacy we want for America, for our children and their children? The present anything goes attitude in society and in government is more than dangerous; it can destroy us. This TIME in which we are living is crucial for each one of us. We must be prudent, we must seek justice with courage and thoughtful self-discipline. Because at this moment in time, we are creating the husk of a legacy we will pass on.
Right now our beautiful country and many of the people who love it are being tarred and feathered by unscrupulous politicians who use their positions in government for their own gain, not ours. They must be stopped.
Soon, we will have a golden opportunity to finally Make America’s Legacy Great Again, but only if the lack of prudence by some of our leaders is outweighed by fortitude from the majority. To re-establish America as the great country she is, the election of a president who is devoted to America and her Constitution cannot come too soon. And we cannot sit back and think it will happen without each of us. We ALL have a part to play in Making America Great Again. So, stand up today and begin.
Translating a World on the Edge 